Clint Adams wrote: >> Note that upgrading applications to new libdb versions is generally more >> work than you expect, as on-disk databases need to be upgraded. >> Sometimes you can use the db*_upgrade tools, sometimes you can dump and >> reload, sometimes it's acceptable and much easier to trash the database >> and rebuild it from scratch (man-db). It's even worse in libraries where >> you might not realize that applications linked against you are using the >> libdb interface you expose, and you might not be able to do anything >> about the applications' databases in the library's maintainer scripts. > > On the other hand, there are cases where you can seamlessly upgrade to a > newer version without modifying the databases at all. Do db4.0->db4.2 upgrades work that way often? :-) If so, perl might be easier to upgrade to db4.2...
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